Wordle rendering of Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future

What's my new book Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future about? Here's a rendering of prominent themes in the text courtesy of the Wordle word cloud generator.

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Baptist News Global previews Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future

Baptist News Global today published an article by news editor Bob Allen previewing my new book Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future: Story, Tradition, and the Recovery of Community (Baylor University Press). Here's an excerpt from the beginning of the article:

Baptists tend to be the “problem children” of the ecumenical movement but have gifts both to give and receive from the broader Christian community, a Baptist theologian who teaches in the school of divinity at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, N.C., says in a new book.

Steven Harmon, who previously served on the faculties of Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Ala., and Campbell University Divinity School in Buies Creek, N.C., argues in Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future, released March 1 by Baylor University Press, that Baptist communities and the churches from which they are separated need each other to be faithful to Jesus’ vision of a visibly united church in his high priestly prayer in John 17....(read the full article at Baptist News Global).

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Pilgrim Community: Ecumenism, Baptist-Style

On Friday, March 18, I'm leading the workshop "Pilgrim Community: Ecumenism, Baptist-Style" during the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina General Assembly at Hayes Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh. The workshop draws from arguments and proposals in my new book Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future: Story, Tradition, and the Recovery of Community (Baylor University Press). If you're attending the assembly and already have a copy of the book, bring it and I'll sign it. If you don't yet have a copy, there's still time to get one from Amazon; I'll also have flyers with a code for a 20% discount and free shipping from Baylor University Press (exp. 3/31) available at the workshop and at the Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity booth.

NABPR-SE 2016 program

The Southeast Region of the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion will hold its annual meeting on Friday, March 4, 2016 on the Mercer University Atlanta campus (3001 Mercer University Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30341) in the Atlanta Trustees Dining Room in the Pharmacy Administration and Cafeteria Building. The meeting program follows:

National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, Southeast

2016 Southeast Regional Meeting

Friday, March 4, 2016

McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, Atlanta, Georgia

8:30-9:00        Registration and Refreshments (Atlanta Trustees Dining Room, Pharmacy Administration Building)

9:00-9:15        Opening Session (Atlanta Trustees Dining Room, Pharmacy Administration Building)

Welcome from the President—Steve Harmon (Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity)

Welcome from the Host—Graham Walker (McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University)

 Announcement of Program—Steve Harmon (Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity)

9:15-10:00      Presidential Address: “What Have Baptist Professors of Religion to Do with Magisterium?”

Steve Harmon (Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity)

10:00-10:15    Responses from Membership

10:15-10:30    Break

10:30-11:30    Open forum discussion: Being Baptist Professors of Religion—Challenges and Opportunities

11:30-12:00    Business Meeting

2017 SECSOR meeting—Raleigh, North Carolina

NABPR-SE meeting?

     Shaw University?

     Inclusion of undergraduate students?

Election of officers

Miscellaneous business

12:00               Adjournment for Lunch

Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future release day

Today's the official release day for my new book Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future: Story, Tradition, and the Recovery of Community (Baylor University Press).

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